Azure Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 69 56
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 7 9 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.93% 1.02% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.06% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 27
10th Percentile £383 £414 £389
25th Percentile £394 £452 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £469 £634 £600
90th Percentile £488 £675 £628
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 700 852 1,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 96.38% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 568 930
10th Percentile £258 £263 £212
25th Percentile £338 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% +14.71% +6.25%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Server Management
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Databricks
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
5 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
1 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Server Management
2 1 (14.29%) API Management
2 1 (14.29%) B2C
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cognos
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) JD Edwards
2 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (14.29%) VMware